Bcfg2 is a Python tool that helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.
- Homepage: http://bcfg2.org
Bcfg2 is fairly portable. It has been successfully run on:
- AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, Solaris
- Many GNU/Linux distributions, including ArchLinux, Blag, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, gNewSense, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat/RHEL, SuSE/SLES, Trisquel, and Ubuntu.
Installation
For details about the installation of Bcfg2 please refer to the following pages in the Bcfg2 wiki.
- Prerequisites: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Prereqs
- Download: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Download
- Installation: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Install
Need help
- FAQ: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/FAQ
- IRC: #bcfg2 on chat.freenode.net
- Mailing list: https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev
- Bug tracker: http://bcfg2.org/report
Documentation
A lot of documentation is available in the Bcfg2 manual and the Bcfg2 wiki.
Wiki: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/ Manual: http://docs.bcfg2.org/
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